Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography - The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West

In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history.